Mate-guarding intensity increases with breeding synchrony in the colonial fairy martin, Petrochelidon ariel

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 661-669

  Hammers, Martijn ^a   von Engelhardt, Nikolaus ^a,b   Langmore, Naomi E ^b   Komdeur, Jan ^a   Griffith, Simon C ^c   Magrath, Michael J L ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

breeding synchrony; extrapair copulation; extrapair paternity; fairy martin; mate guarding; Petrochelidon ariel; reproductive strategy; sexual conflict; sperm competition

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILITY; MATE GUARDING; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; SYNCHRONY;

PETROCHELIDON ARIEL;

EID: 69249222577     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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